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Living dresses...
Published on Thursday November 22, 2007
Living Dresse is the title of the new Loretta Viscuso's Exposition, now in Verona from the 9th to the 24th of November inside the Ethic Shop in vicolo Mazzini 5/a.
Since 1990 Loretta has organized hundreds of workshops inspired by the “playing with art” method developed by Bruno Munari. She has also had over 40 exhibitions of her work in Italy and abroad, including a personal exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Malta, and the interactive workshop/exhibition “Drawings on the Palm of the Hand” in Verona, Italy. She currently lives in Verona with her daughter Marta and teaches Art at the Art Institute of Trento.
This exhibition is something new…particular…innovative and absolutely fashion…!!! A series of handmade drawings, full of colours and catching moments of a woman's life in front of their closet…and not only. "We have dresses that gather among their tucks more than what we would know or we are able to tell about us. There are some quotation that encourage to reflect upon on the research of the sense and happiness."
Everywhere, among the drawings this words…:
Dresses wait patiently.
They stay in the darkness of closet wardrobes
or hang naked in shops.
They are warmed by the touch of our hands,
living their season on our skin.
They take the shape and the smell of our bodies,
being chosen or left every day.
They get unstitched, torn, dirty, faded,
they allow us to shorten, lengthen, enlarge them,
to be able to cover or uncover what we want.
Some dresses tell about us much more than what we would say.
Other dresses hide us and make us invisible.
They have such memories, the dresses, that sometimes we can’t wear them
anymore.
We measure ourselves with them looking at our body on the mirror.
Some dresses smile, some are serious:
black and contrite they wait for the big occasion.
From the darkness of the wardrobes they know that one time, not knowing
when, it will be their turn.
How do dresses see us?
and what do bodies feel from inside a dress?
is it a skin, a second skin, and how thick is it?
How does it breathe?
How much space is there,
in the crook of the elbows, under the armpits, behind the neck?
and in these tiny spaces between us and them,
what happens?
Emptiness ,
air in the dusk of the night,
bright air in the daylight, reflecting the colour of our eyes.
In my opinion it's something to see, to reflect upon and to appreciate in order to fine a new meaning of the word dress....and don't forget that they all on sale!
Published by Antonella Sberna
Images, United Kingdom 
We have just listed our first group of works on the site. They look great and I am sure it’s just a question of time before the first sales start… > read more
